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Shiva Mahbobi is an Iranian former political prisoner. Prior to her arrest she was active in student movement in Iran against the Islamic regime of Iran. She was arrested when she was 16 and spent three and a half years in prison. Shiva left Iran for Turkey in 1992; she was a refugee rights and women’s right campaigner in Turkey at the time working with the International Federation of Iranian Refugees. She then went to Canada where she was the coordinator of the Action Committee in Defence of Women’s Right in Iran- Canada. She has campaigned for women’s right, abolition of stoning and the death penalty, refugees’ rights all her life. She is now living in the U.K. She is the member of executive committee for Equality Now- and organisations in defend of women’s right and also a member of Fitneh- a women’s rights organisation.

She is currently spokesperson of Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI), she is a TV producer and presenter for a TV program on political prisoners in Iran.